Fabrice Sergent

Fabrice Sergent started Bandsintown in 2011 with a simple insight: There was no Fandango for live music. But since then it has grown into much more than an app and website that tells you who is playing in your town. Via the Bandsintown app, you can buy tickets, follow artist pages, and more. And because the app analyzes your Spotify and iTunes catalogs and your social media activity, it can suggest events that you would otherwise have no way of knowing about.

Following Bandsintown's customized recommendations, half of the app's 38 million users have been to, and enjoyed, a show by an artist they had never previously heard. This is great news for the concert biz, where 40% of tickets go unsold.